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Re:No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain by petesergeant on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:27AM (#35769991)
> To have a constitutional government, you should first have a constitution.

Here’s another page that could probably use the fruits of your research:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_K...

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Re:No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain by astrange on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:51AM (#35770118)
Do you believe this one too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_People's_R...

Not to claim it's the same situation, but there's a difference between things that are officially true and things you should actually respect. You shouldn't respect most of the US judicial system either.

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Re:No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain by petesergeant on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:17AM (#35770601)
> but there's a difference between things that are officially true and things you should actually respect

Could you relate that back to your initial claim that "the UK still has an absolute monarchy", which appears to be both officially untrue and untrue in practice?

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Re:No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain by astrange on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:23AM (#35770636)
Well, I'd respect it more if the monarch had a few less of these powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative_in_the_Unite...

Especially

https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2013/01/26/tom-adams-royal-c... + https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...

They don't even make the monarch get a driver's licence or pay taxes.

Maybe they could try writing some of that down in a constitution.

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